Deploy ASP.NET website

Website configuration

Suppose you have an ASP.NET website that you want to run under the domain domain.com

1. Go to application store, install the ASP.NET application

   

2. Create a website with the following configuration

   

   • Enter domain
   • Select Proxy Port
   • Enter the port your ASP.NET application runs on, for example 3000

3. Install the source code for the website from git or upload it yourself

4. Update Database & Build & Publish

   Open the terminal for the website

   

   dotnet ef database update
   dotnet build
   dotnet publish

5. Create Service for website

   Use the Service management feature to create a service

   Create a service named domain_com (you can put domain_com or whatever you want, but note that it is short, easy to remember, no special characters)

   You can refer to the content of domain_com below

   [Unit]
   Description=ASP.NET - domain.com
   
   [Service]
   WorkingDirectory=/home/flashvps/domain.com
   ExecStart=/usr/bin/dotnet /home/flashvps/domain.com/bin/Debug/netcoreapp8.0/publish/domain_com.dll --urls "http://127.0.0.1:3000" // [!code focus ]
   Restart=always
   RestartSec=10
   KillSignal=SIGINT
   SyslogIdentifier=domain_com
   User=flashvps
   Environment=ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT=Production
   Environment=DOTNET_PRINT_TELEMETRY_MESSAGE=false
   
   [Install]
   WantedBy=multi-user.target

   WARNING

   • Change 3000 to the proxy port you declared when creating the website before
   • Please change domain.com to the domain name corresponding to your website
   • flashvps is the user that the website is running on, please replace flashvps with the user that the website is running on (be careful not to set it as root)
   • bin/Debug/netcoreapp8.0/publish/domain_com.dll is the path to the dll file that dotnet publish creates
   • Linux has a case-sensitive file system. Setting ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT to Production will result in searching for the configuration file appsettings.Production.json, not appssettings.production.json.
   • The colon separator (😃 is not supported in environment variable names. Use double underscores (__) instead of colons. The system will convert double underscores to colons when environment variables are read into the configuration. In the following example, the connection string key ConnectionStrings:DefaultConnection is placed in the service definition file as ConnectionStrings__DefaultConnection

     Environment=ConnectionStrings__DefaultConnection={Connection String}

Visit the website to see the successful results!